Riots in Athens and Salonica in solidarity with anarchist on trial

Submitted by taxikipali on 13 Mar 2009

Riots broke once again in the two big Greek cities, this time in relation to the trial of an anarchist accused of bank robbery. The troubles come at the end of yet another tense week in Greece.

In the morning of Friday 13/3 riots broke out in Athens and Salonica in relation to the coming trial of an anarchist, Yorgos Voutsis-Vogiatzis, who was arrested 18 months ago and is accused of bank robbery. In Athens, the down-town posh market area and ruling class residential area of Kolonaki, besides the Greek Parliament was gutted by protestors who smashed dozens of expensive shops, luxury cars and banks. Journalist sources talk of the greatest damage in the capital since the December insurgency, with virtually the entire Kolonaki shopping area destroyed. In Salonica at the same time protestors in solidarity to the accused anarchist damaged several banks in the center of the city.

The riots come at the end of yet another troubled week in Greece. More specifically:

On Monday 9/3 afternoon members of the Open Assembly for Health occupied for four consecutive hours the cashiers of the Red Cross Hospital in Athens demanding total free health care for all. This is a continuation of a form of struggle against the commodification of health care that has been spreading throughout Greece after the December uprising.

On Wednesday 11/3 morning dock workers and lay-offs of the so-called Nautico-construction Zone of Piraeus attacked the fences and smashed the main entrance of the Ministry of Commercial Navy. In their effort to invade and occupy the building, the workers were confronted by special-forces of the port police. In the battle that ensued the port cops made extended use of chemicals and flash blast grenades thus managing to push the protesters back.

The same day, workers of the Ministry of Culture moved once again to blockade the Acropolis demanding their 4 months unpaid salaries and re-employment of their lay-off comrades. The government, despite previous threats to employ riot police against the strikers, proved reluctant to turn the ancient monument into yet another battle zone. The cul de sac of the negotiations has forced the President of the Republic to intervene pledging to look into the workers’s grievances himself.
Later the same day, a demo in solidarity with the arrested insurgents of December outside the Law School in Athens was attacked by motored police forces after stopping buses and spraying slogans on them. In the scuffle that ensued one policeman was injured before riot police forces pushed the protesters back into the asylum university area with extended use of tear gas.

On Thursday 12/3 morning, clashes between neo-nazis and leftists erupted outside the Athens High Court after the end of the retrial of Antonis Androutsopoulos or ‘Periandros’, the ex-deputy of the Golden Dawn [Xrisi Avgi] and leader of its combat battalions in the 1990s, who was condemned once again by the appeal court for the attempted murder of a Marxist student in 1998. The scuffle started after the neo-nazis zig-heiled the accused in the court-room. After the intervention of police forces, the leftists formed a demo in protest to the acquittal of the accused on two more attempted murder charges and the curtailment of his sentence by nine years. The demo marched to the center of Athens chanting “the people do not forget, they hang the fascists” and “TV, cops, and neonazis, all the scum work together”.

The same day in the afternoon, a march took to the streets of Ioannina, NW Greece to protest against the fascist-parastate attack against the Immigrants’ Social Center 15 days ago with a hand-grenade.

At the same time, hospital ambulance (EKAB) workers held a demo and blockaded the Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace in Salonica demanding better working conditions, pledging to continue their industrial action.

On Friday 13/3 morning clashes erupted between students and riot police forces in the city of Patra when the protestors tried to enter the hotel where the minister of education was attending a meeting with directors of technical universities across the country as part of his “tabula rasa” dialogue on educational reform, derided by the left as a parody.

On the urban guerrilla front, the Revolutionary Struggle [Epanastatikos Agonas] has claimed responsibility for the two attacks on Citybank, with an 8-pages long communiqué to the weekly newspaper Pontiki. The leftist urban guerrilla group has in the recent past launched an RPG against the American embassy in Athens and shot a riot police squad with automatic weapons last January in revenge of the killing of Alexandros Grigoropoulos. In its communiqué, which mainly concerns an analysis of neocolonialism, the economic crisis, as well as the imperialist role of the Citibank colossus derided as “a lair of bandits and criminals’, the organization claims the daily Nea had been forewarned of the ultimately unsuccessful attack with AMFO against the Citibank’s greek HQs in Kifisia last month. The organization defended its strategy in detail, and pledged it takes all measures to prevent civilians from being hurt during its attacks and shall continue to make forewarning calls to the press so that trapped buildings are evacuated before destruction. At the same time, a list of the antiterrorist bureau was leaked containing names of over 80 targets, humans and buildings, that shall be guarded against future attacks. The leak comes only a day after the police admitted to the daily Vima that it has no way of preventing any new attacks, causing public hilarity and the anger of named personalities deemed to be in danger.

The unsuitability of the greek police to bear weapons was proved once again tragically on Thursday 12/3 when a riot-policeman off duty opened fire on two robbers at an electronics shop in an Athenean suburb. In the gun battle that ensued a 32 clerk lost her life, and one robber is struggling for his. The amount robbed was only 300 Euros. Psychometric tests performed for the first time after a series of events starting with the assassination of Alexandros in December have so far demonstrated that out of 50.000 armed cops in the country 3.000 must be immediately disarmed as unsuitable. There has been a wave of reactions to the latest incident especially as forensics claim they cannot identify if the clerk was killed by cop or bandit fire, leading many to suspect yet another police cover-up.

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The looting of America’s coffers

David Leonhardt reports in The New York Times :

Sixteen years ago, two economists published a research paper with a delightfully simple title: “Looting.”

The economists were George Akerlof, who would later win a Nobel Prize, and Paul Romer, the renowned expert on economic growth. In the paper, they argued that several financial crises in the 1980s, like the Texas real estate bust, had been the result of private investors taking advantage of the government. The investors had borrowed huge amounts of money, made big profits when times were good and then left the government holding the bag for their eventual (and predictable) losses.

In a word, the investors looted. Someone trying to make an honest profit, Professors Akerlof and Romer said, would have operated in a completely different manner. The investors displayed a “total disregard for even the most basic principles of lending,” failing to verify standard information about their borrowers or, in some cases, even to ask for that information.

The investors “acted as if future losses were somebody else's problem,” the economists wrote. “They were right.”

On Tuesday morning in Washington, Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, gave a speech that read like a sad coda to the “Looting” paper. Because the government is unwilling to let big, interconnected financial firms fail — and because people at those firms knew it — they engaged in what Mr. Bernanke called “excessive risk-taking.” To prevent such problems in the future, he called for tougher regulation.

Now, it would have been nice if the Fed had shown some of this regulatory zeal before the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. But that day has passed. So people are rightly starting to think about building a new, less vulnerable financial system.

And “Looting” provides a really useful framework. The paper's message is that the promise of government bailouts isn't merely one aspect of the problem. It is the core problem.

Promised bailouts mean that anyone lending money to Wall Street — ranging from small-time savers like you and me to the Chinese government — doesn't have to worry about losing that money. The United States Treasury (which, in the end, is also you and me) will cover the losses. In fact, it has to cover the losses, to prevent a cascade of worldwide losses and panic that would make today's crisis look tame.

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Counseling the President on 'how to torture and get away with it'

Via George

From Newly Released Secret Memos Provide the Blueprint for Bush's Police State by Marjorie Cohn

Seven newly released memos from the Bush Justice Department reveal a concerted strategy to cloak the President with power to override the Constitution. The memos provide "legal" rationales for the President to suspend freedom of speech and press; order warrantless searches and seizures, including wiretaps of U.S. citizens; lock up U.S. citizens indefinitely in the United States without criminal charges; send suspected terrorists to other countries where they will likely be tortured; and unilaterally abrogate treaties. According to the reasoning in the memos, Congress has no role to check and balance the executive. That is the definition of a police state.

Who wrote these memos? All but one were crafted in whole or in part by the infamous John Yoo and Jay Bybee, authors of the so-called "torture memos" that redefined torture much more narrowly than the U.S. definition of torture, and counseled the President how to torture and get away with it. In one memo, Yoo said the Justice Department would not enforce U.S. laws against torture, assault, maiming and stalking, in the detention and interrogation of enemy combatants.

What does the federal maiming statute prohibit? It makes it a crime for someone "with the intent to torture, maim, or disfigure" to "cut, bite, or slit the nose, ear or lip, or cut out or disable the tongue, or put out or destroy an eye, or cut off or disable a limb or any member of another person." It further prohibits individuals from "throwing or pouring upon another person any scalding water, corrosive acid, or caustic substance" with like intent.

The two torture memos were later withdrawn after they became public because their legal reasoning was clearly defective. But they remained in effect long enough to authorize the torture and abuse of many prisoners in U.S. custody.

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Were the Ainu "Nomads of the Wind?"

From The Relationship Between The Basque And Ainu by Edo Nyland

...A number of stone circles have also been found, similar to those in Cornwall (England) and Senegal (North-West Africa). A few still have the slender upright stone in the center, also found in the British Isles and elsewhere in Atlantic Europe and N.W. Africa. Around 300 B.C., Mongolian type people moved in from Korea and aggressively forced the Ainu north onto the large island of Hokkaido where an estimated 17,000 of them are still living. Some 10 dialects have been recognized, such as those of Sakhalin, Hokkaido and the Kurils, but several are at the point of being lost for ever...


...The name Amaterasu is made up with the vowel-interlocking Ogam formula, which was surprising to me because in the Ainu language itself there is not a hint of this agglutinating formula. I then searched for more Japanese names and words which were assembled with the vowel-interlocking Ogam formula and found many such as Kamikaze and Samurai. The surprise which came from this comparison was that those words which showed vowel-interlocking were usually associated with fighting and male domination. This appeared to be true all over the Pacific, including Peru and Mexico. Could this mean that there were two major migrations, the first one many millennia ago from Mesopotamia which brought the peaceful people of the Goddess to the Pacific and a much later one, missionary based, bringing aggressive male domination and the language-distorting vowel-consonant-vowel (VCV) formula to these same areas?

None of the Ainu words were exactly the same as in Basque, but many were extremely close such as ikoro and koro (money), kokor and gogor (to scold), tasum and eritasun (illness), iska and xiska (to steal). A surprise was the Ainu word nok (testicle) which is much like the Basque word noka (familiarity with women). In English slang the same word is used in "to knock up" meaning "to cause a woman to become pregnant." In Indonesian nok means "unmarried young woman," while dénok means "slender, elegant woman." In Dutch slang the word is slightly altered to neuk (sexual intercourse). There is little doubt that the word goes way back to the Neolithic or even Paleolithic. From the following comparisons it seems clear to me that Ainu and Basque are genetically related. In comparing Ainu with Dravidian, I did not find such a relationship, although Dravidian itself is obviously also related to Basque. Two separate branches of the same tree?...


...There are indications that the Ainu sailed regularly to Alaska to obtain reindeer hides from the Aleuts established there, which they needed for their sails, exactly the same as was done by the Basques, the Irish and Scots who went to Arctic Norway for their reindeer-leather sails (Mt. Komsa people). The Ainu must have been great long-distance sea-farers to keep up contact with their home-base which may have been in Mesopotamia. All over the Pacific this incredible sailing tradition waned fast when the social structure changed after the coming of European or Asiatic domination. Today the Ainu still sail the ocean but mostly on fishing trips. The complex navigational techniques, acquired over millennia had been the property of a few special families and were never popular wisdom. They are now lost. The astonishing amount of astronomical knowledge which the members of such navigator families had to memorize was taught them at a very young age and was built up during a lifetime on the ocean. To these highly skilled and proud people the Pacific was no hostile place, the ocean was their life and joy, and an indispensible part of their culture. Only in the Carolines the ancient spirit, some of the secret navigational techniques and much astronomical wisdom has been maintained to this day. All this is described in a wonderful book called: We, the Navigators by David Lewis.

The people who sailed the Pacific without the aid of instruments have recently been called the "Nomads of the Wind", a most appropriate title for these courageous and resourceful people. The Ainu appeared to have been the avant garde of the Pacific migration. The desertification of the Sahara had probably forced these tribes to flee for their lives. It was then that the name "Africa" was coined: af.-.ri-ika, afa-ari-ika: afa (happy) arinari eman (to escape) ikara (terror): Happy to have escaped the terror. Some of these displaced tribes sailed around Asia and started to populate the nearest Pacific islands, all of them speaking the same universal language and bringing along the same religion.

While looking in more detail at the names in the Pacific, I found that many of the Pacific islands had names which could be translated with the Basque dictionary such as: "Tahiti", from tahi-iti, tahiu (appearance) iti (ox): "Resembles an ox" the sharp pointed mountains indeed resemble ox horns. Or: "Rapa Nui" (Easter Island), arra-apa ' nui, erraldoi (giant) aparta (far, far away), nui (enormous, in Hawaiian): "Enormous giants, far, far away". Or: "Hawaii", ha'u-ahi: ha'u (this one) ahigarri (exhausting): This one is exhausting! It still is. Or: "Papua", apapua (living in poverty); stone age people don't own much, they don't pollute and they live as part of nature. One tantalizing hint comes from Peru where the patriarchal Incas established a complex civilization, complete with highly evolved Sumerian-type irrigation. The Incas were living gods and the Basque word for "God" is ainkoa!


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